Working with photographs, text, drawings, collage and projection, I create distilled narratives in books, boxes, films and small installations. These works have often explored themes of memory, absence and loss within the home.

After studying Geography at Exeter University and teaching English in Sudan, I worked as an editorial photographer for many years and then as a picture researcher, before wanting to return to the roots of production and a physical relationship with materials. I embarked on formal art training with a foundation course at City Lit, which led me to an MA in Book Arts in 2015 at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. During this time, my practice addressed the slippage between memory and place in artworks that examined what is retained and what is lost in recollections of home.

I have continued to work with themes of presence and absence in the domestic setting in works that reveal the narrative behind familiar objects. The books A Concise History of Chairs, Folding Chairs and Chair Stories examine our relationships with chairs and have been variously acquired by Tate, the British Library, Winchester School of Art Library and the V&A National Art Library. My Mother’s Teapots tells a story of family, status and china. A series of short films investigates the cupboard: both container and contents, both real and imagined. A Catalogue of Disappointment(s), explores the difficulties of printmaking, housekeeping and unresolved loss. And my most recent work, Conservation Report, reveals a story of physical and emotional damage told through the medium of a technical report.